Instead of writing a post about how the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s empire, Scotland Yard, and several other facets of the British establishment including Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative Party could see Ed Miliband, the opposition leader, becoming the first Jewish prime minister in Britain’s history, I asked my friend Ben Jacobs to explain it to me, because that is what I always do where British politics are concerned. Ben is a law school grad with no specific, say, British history or political science credentials. But I dare you to find an error he made. You’ll fail.

So, Ed Miliband, Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition and head of the Labour Party: he’s Jewish?
Yes, although he is a self-proclaimed atheist and (therefore) doesn’t practice. Both of his parents were refugees from the Holocaust who fled to England. His father was the philosopher Ralph Miliband, one of the leading Marxist thinkers of his time. But he is certainly ethnically Jewish even if he did not come from an observant background.

Instead of writing a post about how the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s empire, Scotland Yard, and several other facets of the British establishment including Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative Party could see Ed Miliband, the opposition leader, becoming the first Jewish prime minister in Britain’s history, I asked my friend Ben Jacobs to explain it to me, because that is what I always do where British politics are concerned. Ben is a law school grad with no specific, say, British history or political science credentials. But I dare you to find an error he made. You’ll fail.

So, Ed Miliband, Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition and head of the Labour Party: he’s Jewish?
Yes, although he is a self-proclaimed atheist and (therefore) doesn’t practice. Both of his parents were refugees from the Holocaust who fled to England. His father was the philosopher Ralph Miliband, one of the leading Marxist thinkers of his time. But he is certainly ethnically Jewish even if he did not come from an observant background.